Death Machines

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The Ethics of Violent Technologies

By Elke Schwarz

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Death Machines by Elke Schwarz delves into the ethical and political implications of using autonomous weapons systems in modern warfare. The book examines how these technologies challenge established moral philosophies and reshape the landscape of power, responsibility, and human decision-making in conflict situations. Insightful and critical, it explores the tension between technological advancement and ethical governance.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in exploring the ethical and political implications of autonomous weapons systems. You'll find a thought-provoking analysis on how technology is reshaping warfare and the moral questions that arise from delegating life-and-death decisions to machines.

Death Machines

Death Machines offers a critical reconsideration of ethical theories and political justifications for technologised practices of violence in contemporary conflicts.

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As innovations in military technologies race toward ever-greater levels of automation and autonomy, debates over the ethics of violent technologies tread water. Death Machines reframes these debates, arguing that the way we conceive of the ethics of contemporary warfare is itself imbued with a set of bio-technological rationalities that work as limits.

The task for critical thought must therefore be to unpack, engage, and challenge these limits. Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, the book offers a close reading of the technology-biopolitics-complex that informs and produces contemporary subjectivities, highlighting the perilous implications this has for how we think about the ethics of political violence, both now and in the future.

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Death Machines by Elke Schwarz offers a critical examination of the technologies underpinning modern armed conflict, focusing particularly on drones and lethal autonomous weapons. Reviewers praise the book for its philosophical depth and compelling critique of the ethical implications and biopolitical rationalities surrounding these technologies. It is described as insightful, engaging with the works of influential thinkers like Hannah Arendt, and is recommended as essential reading for those interested in the ethical and political dimensions of contemporary warfare technologies.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526114846

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 December 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 345g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Elke Schwarz is Lecturer in Political Theory at Queen Mary University of London